should I go SCSI vs IDE?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by theShadow, Jun 19, 2003.

  1. Bottom line is that unless you're running a boat load of intense disk intensive operations (which is doubtful for most user applications, especially if you had a sizable memory footprint), you won't see any difference.

    My friend's got a 200 GB IDE drive on his VAIO that he uses when he's editing digital video - the whole thing is lightning fast. Normal trading apps don't usually generate a ton of disk intensity - unless you don't have enough memory for them and you force high levels of paging that is.

    If you need or want redundancy/fault tolerance in your disk subsystem - load dual drives and use W2K's mirroring feature. Again, unless for some unique reason you've got a huge disk utilization demand you don't even need separate RAID hardware.
     
    #11     Jun 19, 2003
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    #12     Jun 20, 2003